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Tweedy’s new control
Baker Perkins has developed a new control system for its Tweedy mixing systems renamed Tweedy2. It has been designed so that plant bakers using the system for the Chorleywood Bread Process will benefit from improved consistency and quality, as well as enhanced efficiency and ease of use.The new controls ...
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Multiple ISBs defy crisis with rise in core goods
Supermarket in-store bakeries have bucked the recession with sales up by nearly 5% in the past year, as shoppers search out fresh affordable products.According to IRI research, commissioned by Bakehouse, sales of core ISB categories grew by 4.8% in the 52 weeks ending 5 September, compared to the previous year, ...
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RedBlack updates Cybake
York-based RedBlack Software has developed a new version of its Cybake bakery management software.New functions of Cybake v3 include specifications management, allergen tracking, advanced invoice management, invoice matching, ad hoc sales queries, credit control, supplier relationship management and celebration cakes management.The software also features a revamped Microsoft SQL Server/.NET architecture ...
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Orders spur organic firm to expand
Organic pasty and pie specialist Jones Organic has announced plans to expand its production facilities, adding a new site to cope with increased demand from specialist retailers in London and south-east England.The firm, based in Bridgend, began distributing its pies through Stratford Fine Foods in September, and now has orders ...
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Frozen range extended
Country Range Group has added a number of new products to its own-brand portfolio of frozen foods. Following an increase in the sale of frozen products across the group, Country Range has introduced four-inch sausage rolls, a steak and kidney pie, a cheese and onion pasty, cheese and onion lattice ...
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Food in the news
Savouries manufacturers, take note: The Times devoted its front page on October 27 to a story headlined ’Give up meat to save the planet’, based on an interview with influential climate change expert Lord Stern. Stern predicted that a successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December ...
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Pulp Fruits promotes healthy food-to-go
Pulp Fruits has launched a new fruity snack for the food-to-go market. Pulp is exactly what it says on the pouch: blended fruit. It isn’t diluted with juice or water and contains no added sugar. Pulp pouches are available in three varieties: banana, mango and passion fruit; banana, strawberry and ...
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Riverside jobs in question
Middlesbrough-based Riverside Bakery has gone into administration, with 35 jobs in the balance.National accountant Baker Tilly has been appointed administrator and hopes to sell the business as a going concern. The firm has traded as a wholesale baker of bread buns for 25 years, supplying schools, colleges, sandwich shops and ...
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Peter’s slices up market
Peter’s Food is targeting a younger market with a new line of slices. These will form part of Peter’s Premier Range, which includes pies, pasties and sausage rolls. The slices come in eight different varieties: Spicy Chicken Fajita using Discovery seasoning, Ham and Pilgrim’s Choice Cheese, Chicken and Mushroom, Chicken ...
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Pressure mounts over sustainable palm oil
Pressure is mounting on bakery companies to switch to sustainable palm oil, although it is unclear who is expected to pay for the changes. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) last month published a league table, rating food companies and retailers on their record of buying sustainable palm oil, with firms such as Warburtons, Northern Foods and Allied owner ABF relatively low down the list.
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Consumers continue to see health and wellness as an important issue, according to new research by Tate & Lyle. The findings also revealed that consumers will pay more for foods that display health benefits on their labels. The research, conducted in July this year, forms part of Tate & Lyle’s ...
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Rise for AlliedA strong performance by Allied Bakeries in the year to 12 September 2009, helped increase sales at Associated British Foods’ grocery division by 13% to £3,188m. Profit declined by 2% to £191m, mainly due to first-half problems with its ACH subsidiary in the US and a highly competitive ...
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Palmers’ pie partyPalmers Bakery in Haughley is to celebrate its 140th birthday on 4 December by giving away free mince pies with each purchase. The Bakehouse, established around 1752, was taken over by William James Palmer as a bakehouse, pastry cook, booksellers and newsagents in 1869. The business, which produces ...
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Rowe’s successRowe’s branded savoury bakery concession, introduced in July at Asda, St Austell (Cornwall), has beaten pre-opening sales estimates, with weekly figures up to 40% higher than predicted.Maple Leaf resultsCanadian company Maple Leaf saw earnings in its Bakery Group increase to $32.7m in the third quarter compared to $30.6m the ...
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Park Royal Innovation Centre opened
A food and drink innovation centre has launched in London, with bakers high up on the priority list for business support.
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NewsSIAB to stage world-class competition
Italy’s biggest bakery exhibition, SIAB, is to launch a new Breads of the World competition, which will see nine international teams going head to head.
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Impless acquires Irish arm of O’Briens chain
The Irish arm of the sandwich chain O’Briens has been bought out of liquidation by Impless, a newly formed subsidiary of Irish fast food group Abrakebabra Investments (AIL).
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FSA plans second wave of attack on sat fats
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) will launch a second wave of saturated fat posters early in 2010, as part of a renewed campaign to reduce saturated fat intake, following a drive to target pastry earlier this summer.
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JJ Food Service strikes Cooks the Bakery deal
JJ Food Service has struck a multi-million pound deal which will see it supply Cooks the Bakery store across the UK.